I haven't made a lot of Christmas cards this year but I made a few to send to the Grandkids. This one is from Whimsy Stamps called Grumpy Holidays . Have you tried these stamps yet? They are so fun to color! I thought this one with the dog on it would be good for a boy.

It's been a while since my last post so I got inspired yesterday to color up this adorable stamp from Purple Onion Designs called Snow globe. I just adore Stacey Yacula and her designs. You can check her work out on Etsy. The inspiration for the colors comes from a new coloring class from Passionate Paper Creations Rhea is the instructor. Even if you've been coloring for a while you will learn something new. It's always good to go back and review too! On this image I used the color combo she used as well as coloring sky, snow, flicking and texture on the animals. I love how it turned out. Its not the image she used but it worked for mine.

I have another fall card to share. This time its a stamp from Stampendous House Mouse Designs called Autumn Winds. I just love these House Mouse Designs. Don't you? This one was so fun to color too! I airbrushed the sky with Copics as well. The Sentiment is from Powerpoppy Feeling Fall Set. I stamped it with Hero Arts ink then used Ranger super fine detail powder in clear. Die cuts are from Spellbinders Lg. Deckled Rectangles and and sentiment is a die cut from Lawn Fawn Stitched Labels. DP is from BoBunny Dreams of Autumn Collection.

I'm back with my first fall card of the season. I'm afraid I'm not getting very far as my craft room is a disaster right now. Having some work started shortly on the back patio and have some of the furniture stuffed in my room right now. I can't seem to get any crafting done when its a mess.

I chose to use two stamps sets from Powerpoppy. Have you tried these stamps? They are always so much fun to color. the first one is Olive & Oak Expanded and Feeling Fall. She also carries digitals. DP is from BoBunny and I just added some Nuvo drops and stickles for sparkle.

Well I'm back after a few months! We got moved and that was a lot of crafts stuff to move! Yikes.
I finally made a card and did some stamping and coloring because I needed a birthday card for a granddaughter. I decided to use this Unity stamp called Poppy Girl found Here. The sentiment is from Penny Black called Sprinkles and Smiles found Here. I just kept it simple this is a large stamp, colored with Copics and added sentient.

Well summer has arrived! It's a bit toasty here hope you are keeping cool wherever you live. I am sharing my last project for the Graciellie Creative Design Team. I decided to color up this daffodil jar from the Simple Wisdom digital stamp set for June. I really wanted to color this jar because I attended a Copic Advanced boot camp in May and we colored something similar focusing on the jar, water, transparency, added water drops and of course flowers. I feel I achieved what I set out to do here.

I want to say thank you to Gracie of Graciellie Design. I have enjoyed my time with her team. Everyone was a joy to work with. So many talented team members and Gracie always blows me away with her talent! I will be taking some time off for the summer.

If you'd like to purchase this set or others please use this discount code: BARBARA10 for 10% off your purchase and you can share the code with your crafty friends. Hope you have a great summer!

If you are interested in Jennifer Dove's Copic Boot Camps you can find the info HERE. They are so much fun and you will learn a lot!

It's time for the Graciellie Design June Inspiration blog hop featuring all new Digital stamp sets for June. Today I'm featuring Sending Kindness and decided to create a summer wreath! I just printed out 4 of the pear blossoms and a couple sets of pears, colored with Copics and fussy cut them then added them to the twig wreath die cut then sentiment. So go check out all the beautiful creations the team has created! If you'd like to purchase this digital set or any other you can use this 10% discount code BARBARA10 for your purchase, share it with your crafty friends and check out the SHOP.

It's time for our June digital stamp release, blog hop/giveaway for Graciellie Design. Today we will be sharing 4 new digital stamp sets and I have chosen to use Sending Kindness. The flower is a pear blossom! It looks like a hydrangea so you could use it that way as well. It also comes with the pears, 5 sentiments and a little bee. Graciellie Design is giving away a $10 gift card to the SHOP so you need to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win the $10 gift card. International followers are welcome to participate too! If you'd like to purchase this new digital stamp set or others you can use this 10% discount code: BARBARA10 and visit the SHOP. We also have 2 new guest designers for the month of June so get hopping!

It's time for our mid-month inspiration blog hop featuring new digital stamps for May with Graciellie Design. I'm still featuring Count On Me but this time I used this sweet little hummingbird one of the new May releases. You can check out all the new May release digital stamps in the shop HERE. You can use the discount code BARBARA10 for 10% off in the SHOP so go check them out and go shopping! We also have a guest designer for May Maria Luisa.

The Winner from May 1st is announced over on the Graciellie Design blog and a redraw for the Westcott Scissors is announced as well. We're celebrating all month for Gracie's birthday so come hop along!

I'm sharing my extra project for May for Graciellie Design. I really love this set called Just Because and it's a fabulous one to color! I didn't add a sentiment but the set comes with 4 sentiments as well. You can use the discount code BARBARA10 to get 10% off if you'd like to purchase this Digital set or others and share it with your crafty friends!

It's time for our May release/blog hop and Giveaway for Graciellie Design . May is Gracie's birthday month so we're celebrating! Happy birthday Gracie! Graciellie Design is giving away a $10 gift certificate AND her new Pre-lease Pray to one lucky winner! All you have to do is hop along and comment on ALL design team members and Graciellie Design blog for a chance to win. International followers may participate. Winner to be announced May 15 on the Graciellie Design Blog.

But first I'm show casing one of the new digital stamp sets for May called Count On Me. Peonies are all the rage these days so I chose to use it! It also comes with a sweet hummingbird and 4 sentiments. You can also see Gracie's May birthday month special release set called Pray with hand lettered sentiments below! So come hop along and if you'd like to purchase the new May digital stamps you can use this code: BARBARA10 for 10% off your purchases! You can check them out in the SHOP. So get hopping!

All this week the Graciellie Design Creative Team is giving a sneak peek of a brand new digital stamp set our first hand lettered digital stamp set called Pray. This sweet little bonnet girl image is a favorite of Gracie (owner of Graciellie Design digital shop) and is part of her birthday celebration blog hop and complete NEW release coming May 2nd. Isn't this an adorable set? This little girl comes in two images, one the apron is filled in so you could use your toner printer and add foil like Gracie did or outlined so you can color it! Brilliant!

I decided to make a little scene with this sweet little girl so I just printed her out on Copic paper and die cut with the stitched rounded corner die, then colored her, added grass the masked her off and added yellow air-brushing for the sun and the blue sky. I die cut the sentiment to look like the sun and added the clouds.

If you'd like to purchase this brand new set its available now in the SHOP . Please use the code: BARBARA10 to get 10% off your purchase! Please come back May 2nd we will have all new images and birthday celebration for Gracie!

It's time for our mid-month inspiration blog hop with Graciellie Design and Westcottbrand Giveaway! I'm featuring Sprinkled With Love one of 5 new sets for April so I decided to make a watercolor card using a clear acetate card base.
We are featuring Westcottbrand all month. Have you tried their precision scissors?? Westcottbrand is giving away 2 pairs of precision scissors to one lucky winner. Please comment on all team blogs plus Graciellie Design blog for a chance to win the scissors!

If you'd like to purchase this digi or others please use BARBARA10 to get 10% off in the SHOP. Digital stamps are easy to use and very cost effective! Try them out!

Winner from May 1st is announced over on the Graciellie Design blog so please see list below and get hopping! See my pics below and lets get started!

About Me

I am a paper artist and stamper whose specialty is card making. I'm Copic certified and have been fortunate to have some of my work published. I've made so many friends out there while blogging and searching for great inspiration. I love sharing my work. I hope you can find some inspiration here.

FTC Disclosure

As of December 1, 2009, new FTC guidelines went into effect requiring me to say that I serve on a/several design team(s) and participate on various social media sites where I post projects containing components I have received for free, have been compensated for or received perks in return for posts on this blog.